Hundreds of people went to pray at Joseph’s tomb in Shechem in the early hours of this morning (Tuesday), including famous Jewish singer Yaakov Shwekey who had performed in the

Following months of speculation, Vermont Senator and former contender for the Democratic presidential nomination Bernie Sanders formally endorsed his one-time rival Hillary Clinton at a New Hampshire rally on Tuesday.

MK Robert Ilatov of Yisrael Beytenu expressed satisfaction at the passage late Monday of the NGO “transparency law”, which he authored together with Jewish Home MK Betzalel Smotrich and Justice

A German TV documentary has come under fire for equating Israeli anti-Arab prejudice with Palestinian incitement to kill Israelis. The documentary, which aired July 5 on the public-service broadcaster ZDF‘s

A young Jewish staffer for the Democratic National Committee was shot dead in an apparent robbery near his home in Washington, D.C. Seth Conrad Rich, 27, was shot early Sunday

A traffic accident near the entrance to Hashmonaim left a woman and four-year-old child trapped under a tractor, after the vehicle fell off of a truck. Rescue workers extracted the

Amichai and Rina Ariel, the parents of 13-year-old Hallel Yaffa Ariel, went up to the Temple Mount on Tuesday morning, along with numerous friends and supporters. Jerusalem police commander Yorem

Yesh Atid head Yair Lapid has demanded that IDF Chief Rabbi Eyal Karim publicly declare his support for drafting women into the army. “The new Chief Rabbi, Colonel Eyal Karim,

Lieutenant Colonel David Shapira, the former commander of Elor Azariya’s battalion, took the stand on Tuesday morning. Azariya is on trial for manslaughter after he killed a neutralized terrorist. Shapira

The Christian Recruitment Forum and the Zionist Foundation for Israel have revealed that a leading BDS organization is acting freely in Israel, despite violating Israeli laws. Israel Hayom reports that

Walter Felman, a Jewish man from London, was recently honored by UK Prime Minister David Cameron. Jewish News reports that he was recognized for the British branch of the Save

(JTA) — Half of those who could benefit from a life-saving cancer gene test are not eligible for the screening under the current rules, 30 leading cancer researchers announced at

The Republican Party is amending its platform to include a slightly altered position on Israel, JTA reported Monday. The latest draft of the platform reinstates a reference to Jerusalem as

(JTA) — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said she “can’t imagine what the country would be” with Donald Trump as president. Ginsburg in an interview with The New York

The special UN court set up to prosecute the killers of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri on Monday overturned an earlier decision to try in absentia a Hezbollah military

The wife of NFL player Brent Grimes has come under fire after she used an anti-Semitic slur in ridiculing the Miami Dolphins’ Jewish owner for hiring another Jew to be

(JTA) — Jewish-American Olympic gold medalist Aly Raisman has been named again to the U.S. women’s Olympics gymnastics team. Raisman finished third in the Olympic Trials that finished Sunday night

Senator Bernie Sanders will join Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail on Tuesday, perhaps paving the way for an official endorsement, The Atlantic reported Monday. The two will make a

North Korea is continuing its threats against the United States, saying Monday it will end a diplomatic communication channel with the United States. According to The Associated Press, Pyongyang hinted

(JTA) — The strict parole restrictions placed on Jonathan Pollard are “vindictive and retaliatory,” his attorneys said in a brief filed with a U.S. federal court. According to the brief

Bilal Al-Kayed, a senior terrorist from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine who is imprisoned in Israel and has been on a hunger strike for 26 days, has

MDA emergency personnel transferred a 77 year-old woman from a Neve Yaakov health clinic to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital after she was apparently shot in the head. The woman was

The Israeli army on Monday named an officer from Israel’s Druze Arab minority as its most senior medical official. Colonel Dr. Badar Tarif, formerly the Deputy Surgeon General of the

(AFP) – Rebel fighters launched a major assault on regime-held districts of Syria’s long-divided Aleppo on Monday, after the regime severed their only remaining supply route into the battleground city.

Defense Minister and Yisrael Beytenu Chairman Avigdor Liberman met today with Michael Gross, a British Jewish philanthropist, who canceled a significant donation to Ben Gurion University because of it hosted

In a thinly veiled threat, MK Bezalel Smotrich took to the stand in the Knesset today to declare that the cost of dismantling Amona would be the coalition. The town

WASHINGTON (JTA) — U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials briefed Jewish leaders on the inclusion of American Jews on an Islamic State “kill list.” Some 200 Jewish leaders joined the

JEDWABNE, Poland (JTA) — Some 150 people attended a commemoration on the 75th anniversary of a massacre of hundreds of Polish Jews by their neighbors in the country’s northeast. Jonathan

Two court bailiffs were killed on Monday afternoon in a shooting attack at in St. Joseph in southwestern Michigan courthouse, NBC News reports. The gunman was later killed as well,

The Knesset approved on Monday night the second and third readings of the so-called “Transparency Law”, authored by MKs Robert Ilatov (Yisrael Beytenu), MK Bezalel Smotrich (Jewish Home) and Justice